It will promise no-one will have to sell their property in their lifetime to fund residential or home care.<\/p>\n
Instead, the cost of care will be taken from their estate – if it is worth at least \u00a3100,000 – when they die.<\/p>\n
Ex-government adviser Sir Andrew Dilnot said many people would have no protection from care costs.<\/p>\n
The manifesto will also include:<\/p>\n
Scrapping winter fuel payments to better-off pensioners – at the moment, all pensioners qualify for one-off payments of between \u00a3100 and \u00a3300 each winter<\/p>\n
A reduction of the so-called “triple lock” on pensions to a “double lock” with the state pension to rise by the higher of average earnings or inflation – but to no longer go up by 2.5% if they are both lower than that<\/p>\n
New money for the NHS, on top of current spending plans<\/p>\n
An extra \u00a34bn on schools in England by 2022 – partly funded by an end to the current provision of free school lunches for all infant pupils in England<\/p>\n
Measures on immigration, including asking firms to pay more to hire migrant workers, who will in turn be asked to pay more to use the NHS<\/p>\n
The social care changes proposed are that the value of someone’s property would be included in the means test for receiving free care in their own home – currently only their income and savings are taken into account.<\/p>\n
People will be able to defer paying for their care until after their death. Those in residential care – whose property is already taken into account in the means test – can already do this.<\/p>\n
There will also be an increase in the amount of wealth someone can have – savings and the value of their home – from the current \u00a323,250 to \u00a3100,000 before they lose the right to free care.<\/p>\n
That means that however much is spent on social care, it becomes free once someone is down to their last \u00a3100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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